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In contrast to their current popularity, records were the “wrong” thing to have. They were disposable items that held the promise of hidden gold, and (he) recalls being given them as frisbees when younger. “They were trash, and the reason you had records was because none of your mates did – it was alternative and you could find crazy shit on there that wasn’t on CD. The way people are treating vinyl now it’s not an alternative culture.” He goes further: “What people are doing now is gentrifying this music, we don’t need stylistic overly explanatory new artwork, and 180g day-glo flags that scream ‘buy me’. B-music is being gentrified, the trash element – in the most popular sense of the word – has to remain. The disposable element, the underdog element, the alternative element has to remain, because they’re stripping all of that and screaming ‘buy me this is the best thing in the world’”.